Pupils: Disadvantaged

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 24 February 2004, what percentage of children were entitled to free school meals in each school in each principal seaside town on the latest date for which figures are available, listed in descending order; and if he will make a statement.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The requested information has been placed in the House Libraries.

Local Government Finance

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 
	(1)  what the potential maximum reward grant is which each local authority with national indicator 191 targets could receive in 2009-10 if it meets all its targets;
	(2)  pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) of 13 March 2009,  Official Report, column 767W, on local government finance, what effect failure by a local authority to meet its local national indicator 191 will have on the level of reward grant available to such an authority in 2009-10.

John Healey: 39 local areas have included a designated target against NI 191 (residual household waste per household) in their Local Area Agreement. Reward for performance against these targets will be payable in 2011-12, from an overall reward fund of £340 million. Entitlement to reward will be based on average performance across all Local Area Agreement targets in an area over the full three-year LAA period. It is not possible, at this stage, to determine the reward grant payable against individual targets in particular years.
	My Department has published guidance on the operation of the reward scheme and this is available at:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/laarewardguidance2009

Local Government Finance

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) of 11 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 504-5W, on sustainable development, whether local spending reports will be extended to  (a) the Highways Agency,  (b) the Homes and Communities Agency,  (c) the regional development agencies,  (d) the Environment Agency and  (e) learning and skills councils.

John Healey: On 22 April 2009 we made arrangements for the production of the first Local Spending Report under section 6 of the Sustainable Communities Act 2007. The arrangements set out full details of the information that will be included in the first report which will be published on 29 April 2009. They will build on the proposals we made in the first phase of a consultation which closed on 3 April 2009.

Mortgages: Government Assistance

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 
	(1)  pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 12 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 746-7W, on mortgages: Government assistance, how many households deemed to have met the eligibility criteria have received financial assistance to date;
	(2)  how many households have been assisted by each of the local authorities which has fast-tracked the mortgage rescue scheme.

Margaret Beckett: As part of the monitoring arrangements for the Government Mortgage Rescue Scheme, headline data will be published on a monthly basis on the Department's website starting this month. We will be publishing headline data for January, February and March 2009 on 30 April 2009, as pre-announced on the UK National Statistics Publication Hub, after which local authority breakdowns can be made available. The date of this publication has been delayed from 21 April 2009 owing to unforeseen issues with data quality and validation.

Non-Domestic Rates

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) of 13 March 2009,  Official Report, column 768W, on non-domestic rates, in which local authority areas the automated valuation techniques have been used.

John Healey: Automated techniques have been used, not for the purpose of valuation, but to inform the analysis of rents of industrial property in a limited number of local authority areas. Those areas are as follows:
	South East—Crawley, Chichester, Worthing, Adur, Brighton and Hove, Hastings and Eastbourne
	Newcastle—Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland and the Teesside conurbation
	East Midlands—Northampton, Leicester and Blaby, Derby, Lincoln and Nottingham
	Leeds—Bradford, Wakefield, Calderdale and Kirklees.
	Final valuations for all the properties concerned will be produced by Valuation Office Agency staff.

Property Development: Surrey

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 
	(1)  what meetings  (a) Ministers in her Department and  (b) her Department's officials have had with representatives of Dunsfold Park Limited regarding the redevelopment of the former Dunsfold Aerodrome site in Surrey in the last three years;
	(2)  on what dates meetings between representatives of Dunsfold Park Limited and the Government Office for the South East have taken place since July 2005;
	(3)  with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 4 February 2008,  Official Report, column 853W, on property development: Dunsfold Park, which aspects of national planning policy apply to such a development.

Margaret Beckett: Since July 2005 officials from the Government Office for the South East have attended a preview to a public exhibition on 4 February 2006 and a presentation of the proposed development on 11 September 2006.
	Officials from the Government Office for the South East and from CLG have met with representatives of Dunsfold Park Ltd. on 17 April 2007 and 4 September 2007. No Ministers from CLG have met with representatives of Dunsfold Park Ltd.
	The proposed development encompasses a wide range of community and land use issues. The major national policy areas are:
	Planning Policy Statement 1 "Delivering Sustainable Development"
	Planning Policy Statement 3 "Housing"
	Planning Policy Statement 9 "Biodiversity and Geological Conservation"
	Planning Policy Guidance 13 "Transport"
	The application has been subject to an appeal and the public inquiry finished on 3 April 2009. The inspector will also consider any other relevant policy areas.

Property Development: Surrey

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 
	(1)  for what reasons her Department rejected the proposed Dunsfold Park, Surrey eco-town development; and what methodology her Department used to assess the proposal;
	(2)  with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 4 February 2008,  Official Report, column 853W, on property development: Dunsfold Park, if she will place in the Library a copy of each non-confidential written representation  (a) her Department and  (b) the Government Office for the South East received in relation to the proposed Dunsfold Park eco-town.

Margaret Beckett: Dunsfold Park is included in the initial eco-towns assessment summaries, which are available on my Department's website:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/pdf/eco-townsassessmentsummaries.pdf
	These assessment summaries were the outcome of the scrutiny of all proposals received, including Dunsfold Park, following the launch of the Eco-towns Prospectus (July 2007), and considered proposals in relation to the eco-towns criteria set out in the prospectus. Where proposals met the criteria they then were looked at across Government and its agencies in terms of transport and environment issues, and the opportunities that the locations put forward. Dunsfold Park was not judged to perform sufficiently strongly against the eco-towns criteria to be shortlisted.
	As the Dunsfold Park proposal was not shortlisted for consultation in 'Eco-towns—Living a greener future' (April 2008) no further representations were received by my Department or the Government Office South East in relation to the eco-town proposal. Representations received prior to this from Dunsfold Park Ltd. and its advisers, and any of the promoters of proposals not shortlisted, are not being released by my Department, because this could potentially prejudice any future applications they make in relation to their proposals.

Music

Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much of the funding allocated for new rehearsal spaces for musicians referred to in his Department's press release of 17 December 2007 has been spent to date; and if he will make a statement.

Barbara Follett: Discussions have been held with local authorities and other partners with the aim of setting up 10 pilot community music rehearsal spaces in England over the two financial years 2008-09 and 2009-10. Of the £500,000 allocated for the scheme, expenditure has so far totalled £72,434. We are aiming to have all 10 spaces established by March 2010.

Regional Cultural Consortiums

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009,  Official Report, column 434W, on regional cultural consortia, what the estimated costs are of ending the consortia, including redundancy payments.

Barbara Follett: The total grant in aid allocated to the Regional Cultural Consortiums (RCCs) in 2008-09 was £1,994,408. The additional cost to the Department of closing the RCCs was £399,745. From these two amounts the total amount paid in redundancy to RCC staff was £765,505. The Department also has a budget of between £45,000 and £55,000, plus expenses and VAT, for professional liquidation advice in respect of the RCC closure. Although the RCCs are now closed for business their formal liquidation will not take place until the summer of 2009 and so liquidation costs have not yet been finalised.

Solar Power

Nigel Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many applications have been received for grants for solar photovoltaic technology under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme  (a) phase one and  (b) phase two from organisations in (i) Ribble Valley constituency, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) the UK since the start of the scheme.

Mike O'Brien: Applications received for grants for solar photovoltaic technology under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme  (a) phase one and  (b) phase two from organisations in (i) Ribble Valley constituency, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) the UK since the start of the scheme are as shown as follows:
	
		
			  Applications under Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 1 
			   Number of applications  Grant amount (£) 
			  Householder stream   
			 Ribble Valley 3 22,076.50 
			 Lancashire 11 50,020.50 
			 All UK 1,876 7,462,585.94 
		
	
	
		
			   Number of applications  Grant requested (£) 
			  Communities   
			 Ribble Valley 0 0.00 
			 Lancashire 0 0.00 
			 All UK 32 556,616.13 
			
			  Stream 2A—projects up to £100,000   
			 Ribble Valley (1)— (1)— 
			 Lancashire 5 29,799.00 
			 All UK 119 1,997,444.33 
			
			  Stream 2B—projects up to £1,000,000   
			 Ribble Valley 0 0.00 
			 Lancashire 0 0.00 
			 All UK 17 1,736,041.00 
			 (1) Not known 
		
	
	 Applications under Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 2
	(i) There have been no applications received for grants for solar photovoltaic technology from the Ribble Valley constituency.
	(ii) Within Lancashire applications have been received for grants for solar photovoltaic technology from 80 projects (this includes 21 projects being withdrawn, most of this have re-applied and been accepted; 17 of these are currently being assessed). Further details regarding applications from Lancashire have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
	(iii) There have been applications for grants for solar photovoltaic technology from 1,502 organisations within the United Kingdom.

Community Relations: Finance

Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to page 92 of the report, The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism published in March 2009, how much was spent on the programme of foreign policy outreach to domestic Muslim communities in 2008-09; how much is expected to be spent in  (a) 2009-10 and  (b) 2010-11; which communities he visited in 2008-09; which communities he plans to visit in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11; how those communities were selected; which topics will be discussed; how the success of the programme will be evaluated; and if he will make a statement.

Bill Rammell: We have a programme of outreach to Muslim communities around the UK by Ministers and senior officials to engage on foreign policy issues and challenge extremists' distortions of British foreign policy. Engaging with communities also helps tackle misconceptions about UK foreign policy and undermines the extremist narrative. Violent extremists use misconceptions about foreign policy as a way to radicalise vulnerable young people in the UK.
	The cost of foreign policy outreach events to British Muslim communities undertaken by Ministers and Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials during FY 2008-09 was £85,000. During the past year my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary personally visited the following areas:
	28 May—Tower Hamlets
	25 July—Birmingham
	8 September—Birmingham
	21 November—Bradford
	22 January—Manchester
	16 April—Glasgow
	We expect that outreach activity during FY 2009-10 will incur roughly similar costs to the previous year. Funding for FY 2010-11 is yet to be allocated. Visits are evaluated through feedback from participants and local authorities as well as by monitoring wider dissemination of information about the events through press coverage and blogs. Locations for visits over the coming year are yet to be decided but we intend to include areas with substantial Muslim and diaspora communities. The topics likely to be covered at these events will be foreign policy issues of concern to Muslim communities.

Burns: Greater Manchester

Derek Twigg: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many serious burn case patients from outside Greater Manchester were treated at the burn unit in Manchester in each year since 2003.

Dawn Primarolo: holding answer 20 April 2009
	Information on the number of severe/complex burn cases from outside Greater Manchester that were treated at the burn unit in Manchester in each year since 2003 is given in the following table.
	
		
			  The number of severe/complex burn cases from outside Greater Manchester that were treated in Manchester in each year since 200 
			   2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  Total 
			 Paediatrics treated cases with residence from outside Greater Manchester 4 3 4 4 7 9 31 
			 Adults treated cases with residence from outside Greater Manchester 1 2 0 9 4 4 20 
			 Uncoded data(1) 1  1 
			 Total 6 5 4 13 11 13 52 
			 (1) It was not clear whether the case was paediatric or adult.  Source: The National Burn Injury Database (data does not include readmissions)

Contraceptives: Finance

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 3 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 1457-8W, on contraceptives: finance, by what means primary care trusts were informed of the additional £12.8 million contraception funding.

Dawn Primarolo: The 2008-09 primary care trust (PCT) revenue allocations were announced on 13 December 2007, and these overall allocations included £12.8 million new funding for contraceptive services. In addition a statement published on 27 June 2008 in The Week (the NHS Chief Executive's Bulletin for senior National Health Service managers), which accompanied the release of the 2007 abortion data, reminded PCTs that they had received this additional funding as part of their allocations for 2008-09.

Dental Services

Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  which organisations and individuals were consulted on the content of the dental services statement of financial entitlement before its publication on 1 April 2009; and which of these consultations took place in accordance with section 103(4) of the National Health Service Act 2006;
	(2)  with reference to section 103(4) of the National Health Service Act 2006, which bodies appear to him to be representative of persons to whose remuneration a directive made under section 103(1) of that Act would relate.

Ann Keen: Section 103(4) of The National Health Service Act 2006 provides that the Secretary of State, before making any direction as to payments to be made under a general dental services contract, must consult any body that appears to be representative of those whose remuneration is affected by the direction and may consult other persons as he considers appropriate.
	In accordance with this legislation, the British Dental Association, the Dental Key Stakeholder Group, Dental Practitioner's Association, British Orthodontic Society and Conference of Local Dental Committees were consulted on the Statement of Financial Entitlements 2009.

Eyesight: Testing

Brian Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many pensioners have received free eye tests since the introduction of the policy.

Ann Keen: From 1 April 1999, eligibility for an NHS sight test was extended to everyone aged 60 or over.
	The following tables show the number of NHS sight tests, by patient eligibility, in England between 1996-97 and 2007-08.
	Patients aged 60 and over may qualify for an NHS sight test on more than one criterion (i.e. age, low income or having glaucoma or diabetes). However, they would only be recorded against one criterion on the form. Patients are more likely to be recorded according to their clinical need rather than their age. For example, a patient aged over 60, with glaucoma is likely to be recorded in the glaucoma category only. For these reasons the count by eligibility is therefore approximate. Patients may also have had more than one sight test over the 10-year period.
	In 2007-08, over 11 million NHS sight tests were provided in total, an increase of 58 per cent. compared to the total of seven million sight tests in 1998-99, the last year before eligibility was extended to everyone aged 60 and over.
	
		
			  NHS sight tests, by patient eligibility, in England, as at the specified financial years 
			   1996-97  1997-98  1998-99  1999-2000  2000-01  2001-02 
			 Aged 60 and over 0 0 0 3,301,412 3,753,315 4,012,946 
			 Children 0-15 2,353,696 2,385,520 2,458,944 2,425,666 2,404,037 2,374,943 
			 Students 16-18 515,321 507,983 477,013 468,221 454,319 487,882 
			 Adults receiving income support 1,905,505 1,975,057 1,781,740 1,359,767 1,158,854 1,082,048 
			 Adults receiving tax credits 358,073 335,711 341,887 328,471 360,033 450,475 
			 Adults receiving JSA 28,983 66,068 176,562 219,654 211,827 230,050 
			 Low income certificate holders (HC2) 331,134 316,700 301,784 226,694 189,899 164,262 
			 Registered blind/partially sighted 36,380 40,810 40,914 21,783 19,604 18,948 
			 Diabetics/Glaucoma sufferers 604,841 644,345 685,107 469,375 451,601 432,819 
			 Need complex lenses 84,409 86,276 80,498 66,029 67,462 61,129 
			 Close relatives 40 and over of Glaucoma sufferers 589,347 632,740 647,857 512,341 496,182 491,898 
			 Unallocated 22 45 28 0 0 0 
			 Total 6,807,711 6,991,255 6,992,334 9,399,416 9,567,135 9,807,403 
		
	
	
		
			   2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08 
			 Aged 60 and over 4,135,615 4,308,889 4,303,128 4,450,007 4,518,672 4,860,912 
			 Children 0-15 2,284,368 2,236,329 2,206,853 2,168,542 2,113,479 2,299,159 
			 Students 16-18 468,735 456,614 463,568 467,487 490,762 507,918 
			 Adults receiving income support 963,281 953,325 1,091,019 1,085,424 1,170,055 1,119,650 
			 Adults receiving tax credits 412,478 474,541 528,409 538,779 569,833 660,736 
			 Adults receiving JSA 207,703 201,487 195,783 218,689 236,126 225,782 
			 Low income certificate holders (HC2) 166,784 149,033 152,534 142,796 133,580 127,542 
			 Registered blind/partially sighted 17,850 19,834 22,227 22,304 28,431 18,764 
			 Diabetics/Glaucoma sufferers 448,147 474,385 589,465 646,628 597,773 591,954 
			 Need complex lenses 66,268 71,418 72,312 70,295 86,816 82,476 
			 Close relatives 40 and over of Glaucoma sufferers 490,820 499,404 523,680 543,605 539,345 552,997 
			 Unallocated 0 0 0 122 50 0 
			 Total 9,662,052 9,845,259 10,148,978 10,354,682 10,484,922 11,047,890 
			  Notes: 1. The figures for income support and tax credits have been revised for 2005-06 to reflect incorrect coding. 2. From 1 April 1999, eligibility for an NHS sight test was extended to everyone aged 60 or over. 3. Patients may qualify for an NHS sight test on more than one criterion. However, they would only be recorded against one criterion on the form. Patients are more likely to be recorded according to their clinical need rather than their age. For example, a patient aged over 60, with glaucoma is likely to be recorded in the glaucoma category only. The count by eligibility is therefore approximate. 4. Information for family credit is included within 'Adults receiving tax credits' for 1997-98 to 2002-03 and within 'Adults receiving income support' for later years. 5. Totals may not equal the sum of component parts due to rounding.  Source: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care

Vaccination: Side Effects

Charles Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adverse reaction reports for routine vaccinations there have been in each year since 1985.

Dawn Primarolo: The table lists the numbers of reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to routine vaccines submitted to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) via the Yellow Card Scheme between 1 January 1985 and 31 December 2008. It should be noted that during this time many millions of children and adults have been immunised with these vaccines.
	It is very important to note that the report of a suspected ADR via the Yellow Card Scheme and inclusion in this list does not necessarily mean that the adverse reaction was caused by the vaccine. Yellow Card reports are suspicions that a vaccine or medicine may have caused an adverse reaction and are not proof of a causal association.
	Data from the Yellow Card Scheme is continually reviewed to identify new safely issues with medicines and vaccines, and where issues are identified appropriate action is taken to protect public health.
	
		
			  Year of receipt  Number of reports 
			 1985 398 
			 1986 558 
			 1987 394 
			 1988 659 
			 1989 1,419 
			 1990 907 
			 1991 811 
			 1992 1,204 
			 1993 2,100 
			 1994 1,889 
			 1995 1,339 
			 1996 1,125 
			 1997 1,014 
			 1998 1,031 
			 1999 2,466 
			 2000 13,066 
			 2001 1,392 
			 2002 1,343 
			 2003 2,112 
			 2004 1,720 
			 2005 1,880 
			 2006 1,318 
			 2007 1,162 
			 2008 2,293

Asylum: Housing

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many houses rented under the National Asylum Support Service scheme did not have anyone living in them on 1 January 2009.

Phil Woolas: There were no unoccupied houses for which the UK Border Agency was making payment for on 1 January 2009.

British Nationality

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been registered as British citizens in each English local authority area since 2005.

Phil Woolas: The available information is shown in Annex A.
	The data shows the number of registrations as a British citizen. This is broken down by the local authority which was responsible for performing the Citizenship Ceremony for those applicants over 18, who were successful in their application for British citizenship.
	We are unable to provide a similar analysis for applicants under 18 years of age and these applications are shown as "Unknown". This total relates to all areas of the UK and not just England. These are applications from minors who apply direct to the Home Office, not in conjunction with a parental application. Minors are not required to attend Citizenship Ceremonies and consequently the information is not collated by local authority and could be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.
	The information has been provided from local management information and is not a National Statistic. As such, it should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.
	
		
			  People registered as British citizens by central points 2005-08 
			  Country  Central point  2005  2006  2007  2008  Total 
			  Grand total 41,505 42,055 39,845 29,950 153,355 
			
			 England Barking and Dagenham 705 565 520 265 2,055 
			 England Barnet 980 780 740 475 2,975 
			 England Barnsley MBC 15 15 15 25 70 
			 England Bath and North East Somerset 20 25 45 20 110 
			 England Bedfordshire 195 165 190 85 635 
			 England Bexley 175 180 160 105 620 
			 England Birmingham 675 920 1,000 800 3,395 
			 England Blackburn and Darwen 35 80 55 20 190 
			 England Blackpool 20 20 60 30 130 
			 England Bolton 85 95 140 110 430 
			 England Borough of Sutton (London) 195 200 230 95 720 
			 England Borough of Telford and Wrekin 15 20 15 25 75 
			 England Bournemouth 45 45 65 35 190 
			 England Bracknell Forest 65 75 80 70 290 
			 England Brent 1,400 1,105 1,125 575 4,205 
			 England Brighton and Hove 115 110 95 70 390 
			 England Bristol 170 360 285 300 1,115 
			 England Bromley 195 220 195 105 715 
			 England Buckinghamshire 180 195 190 100 665 
			 England Bury 25 25 60 25 135 
			 England Calderdale 20 20 25 20 85 
			 England Cambridgeshire 125 225 250 130 730 
			 England Camden 410 495 410 245 1,560 
			 England Cheshire 60 105 85 70 320 
			 England City of Bradford 90 155 145 140 530 
			 England City of York 45 25 30 30 130 
			 England Cornwall 20 35 30 15 100 
			 England Corporation of the City of London 20 20 20 10 70 
			 England Coventry 225 345 360 240 1,170 
			 England Croydon 715 595 660 320 2,290 
			 England Cumbria 35 10 45 35 125 
			 England Darlington 5 15 15 15 50 
			 England Derby City 90 135 110 100 435 
			 England Derbyshire 25 40 40 25 130 
			 England Devon 45 40 50 25 160 
			 England Doncaster 35 65 65 60 225 
			 England Dorset 30 30 35 25 120 
			 England Dudley 20 65 85 70 240 
			 England Durham County Council 30 20 25 15 90 
			 England Ealing 1,170 985 1,130 580 3,865 
			 England East Riding of Yorkshire 15 30 35 15 95 
			 England East Sussex 145 125 140 110 520 
			 England Enfield 1,275 1,145 855 700 3,975 
			 England Essex 285 340 370 250 1,245 
			 England Gateshead 45 55 45 25 170 
			 England Gloucestershire 85 75 105 75 340 
			 England Greenwich 575 525 390 280 1,770 
			 England Hackney 840 760 555 345 2,500 
			 England Halton 5 5 10 5 25 
			 England Hammersmith and Fulham 420 465 400 200 1,485 
			 England Hampshire 260 30 365 210 865 
			 England Haringey 1,240 980 720 475 3,415 
			 England Harrow 990 685 705 335 2,715 
			 England Hartlepool 5 5 25 5 40 
			 England Havering 135 155 125 55 470 
			 England Herefordshire Council 5 10 10 15 40 
			 England Hertfordshire 500 570 520 310 1,900 
			 England Hillingdon 500 510 535 260 1,805 
			 England Hounslow 805 610 775 365 2,555 
			 England Isle of Man * 10 5 5 20 
			 England Isle of Wight 5 10 20 20 55 
			 England Islington 595 440 405 235 1,675 
			 England Kensington and Chelsea 355 275 245 125 1,000 
			 England Kent 355 470 470 270 1,565 
			 England Kingston-upon-Hull 35 65 60 50 210 
			 England Kingston upon Thames 245 230 310 130 915 
			 England Kirklees 75 105 80 100 360 
			 England Knowsley 5 10 20 15 50 
			 England Lambeth 805 720 605 380 2,510 
			 England Lancashire 115 150 145 100 510 
			 England Leeds City 195 300 375 285 1,155 
			 England Leicester City 555 510 505 415 1,985 
			 England Leicestershire 95 130 110 60 395 
			 England Lewisham 650 510 545 315 2,020 
			 England Lincolnshire 75 70 75 55 275 
			 England Liverpool 180 210 280 200 870 
			 England Luton 255 190 210 150 805 
			 England Manchester 605 760 695 630 2,690 
			 England Medway 80 75 100 60 315 
			 England Merton 410 390 435 195 1,430 
			 England Middlesbrough Council 30 55 50 35 170 
			 England Milton Keynes 255 300 285 140 980 
			 England Newcastle upon Tyne 120 175 180 115 590 
			 England Newham 1,330 1,095 865 530 3,820 
			 England Norfolk 95 140 185 115 535 
			 England Northamptonshire 250 290 265 175 980 
			 England North East Lincolnshire 25 20 30 15 90 
			 England North Lincolnshire 15 10 15 20 60 
			 England North Somerset 20 25 20 15 80 
			 England North Tyneside 35 50 45 15 145 
			 England Northumberland 10 30 15 15 70 
			 England North Yorkshire 55 80 50 35 220 
			 England Nottingham City 75 160 255 185 675 
			 England Nottinghamshire County Council 80 85 95 45 305 
			 England Oldham 75 75 35 55 240 
			 England Oxfordshire 270 270 340 160 1,040 
			 England Peterborough 75 90 135 75 375 
			 England Plymouth 35 35 55 55 180 
			 England Poole 25 30 40 15 110 
			 England Portsmouth 55 95 130 75 355 
			 England Reading 195 205 135 110 645 
			 England Redbridge 745 590 650 290 2,275 
			 England Redcar and Cleveland 10 10 10 5 35 
			 England Richmond upon Thames 225 180 175 125 705 
			 England Rochdale 40 50 60 70 220 
			 England Rotherham 30 50 60 50 190 
			 England Rutland County Council * 5 0 0 5 
			 England Salford 45 95 60 90 290 
			 England Sandwell 25 155 225 145 550 
			 England Sefton 20 30 20 15 85 
			 England Sheffield City 265 370 310 305 1,250 
			 England Shropshire 15 20 30 20 85 
			 England Slough 325 250 280 150 1,005 
			 England Solihull MBC 55 50 55 35 195 
			 England Somerset 45 35 65 25 170 
			 England Southampton 85 135 150 90 460 
			 England Southend-on-Sea 85 65 90 60 300 
			 England South Gloucestershire 50 65 70 30 215 
			 England South Tyneside 15 25 15 15 70 
			 England Southwark 755 630 575 375 2,335 
			 England Staffordshire 70 60 70 75 275 
			 England St. Helens 10 15 25 25 75 
			 England Stockport 75 100 85 45 305 
			 England Stockton-on-Tees 25 30 40 40 135 
			 England Stoke-on-Trent 35 70 95 80 280 
			 England Suffolk 110 130 140 115 495 
			 England Sunderland 25 70 50 10 155 
			 England Surrey 505 555 555 305 1,920 
			 England Swindon 75 100 85 45 305 
			 England Tameside 30 25 40 35 130 
			 England Thurrock 110 90 85 45 330 
			 England Torbay 5 20 10 40  
			 England Tower Hamlets 275 260 235 175 945 
			 England Trafford 105 125 165 80 475 
			 England Wakefield 40 50 65 40 195 
			 England Walsall 45 65 100 70 280 
			 England Waltham Forest 735 625 570 340 2,270 
			 England Wandsworth 540 515 585 365 2,005 
			 England Warrington 35 35 35 25 130 
			 England Warwickshire 75 65 80 60 280 
			 England West Berkshire District Council 15 65 50 30 160 
			 England Westminster 680 510 450 260 1,900 
			 England West Sussex 195 240 215 155 805 
			 England Wigan 10 45 50 35 140 
			 England Wiltshire 40 55 55 40 190 
			 England Windsor and Maidenhead 90 90 55 45 280 
			 England Wirral 25 40 80 20 165 
			 England Wokingham 65 90 70 60 285 
			 England Wolverhampton 60 110 160 125 455 
			 England Worcestershire 35 45 75 55 210 
			 None Unknown 9,060 10,315 8,075 9,910 37,360 
			 * = Negligible i.e. 2 or less.  Notes: 1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5. 2. Those shown as "Unknown" will be a mixture of all of the areas, not just England. 3. Figures have been provided by using the Central point that each local authority maps to for the performance of the Citizenship Ceremony.  Source: Local Management Information

Cybercrime

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were employed in the e-crime department of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in April 2006; and how many people are now so employed.

Alan Campbell: In April 2006 50 staff, employed previously by the National High Tech Crime Unit were absorbed into the Serious Organised Crime Agency. At that point the work of the High Tech Crime Unit was divided between SOCA's e-crime department and the Child Exploitation and On-line Protection Centre (CEOP).
	In April 2009, 38 staff were directly employed in the SOCA e-crime department, with other staff employed by CEOP working on offences of alleged child abuse where technology may be a factor.

Members: Correspondence

Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight of 5 December 2008 on protection of the personal details of a constituent, in respect of which the hon. Member has written to her on 9 January, 24 February and 27 March 2009.

Phil Woolas: Inquiries from my officials have established that the letter referred to in the Question is about settlement in the UK for former Gurkhas who retired before July 1997.
	In September 2008, the High Court agreed that the 1997 cut-off date applied to retired Gurkhas was sound and not discriminatory. However, it did find that the policy guidance relating to the treatment of Gurkhas discharged before 1997 was not sufficiently clear and did not cover service-related factors. We are determined to get the revised guidance right to ensure that it is fair to all Gurkhas and this has involved consultation across Government.
	The revised guidance for Gurkhas who retired before July 1997 and who wish to seek settlement in the UK will be published by 24 April. We want to give Members the fullest possible information and we therefore plan to write to them on or soon after that date with an explanation of our revised guidance.

Racial Hatred

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 2 April 2009,  Official Report, column 1315W, on Anti-Semitism: publications, how much racially inflammatory material that could be perceived as potential incitement to the committing of hate-related crime has been reported to the police for evaluation and assessment in the last six months; and if she will make a statement.

Alan Campbell: This information is not available. Data on such activity is collected by police forces at the point of report but is not collated.

Telecommunications: Databases

Francis Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 4 March 2009,  Official Report, column 1642W, on telecommunications: databases, from which budgets the Interception Modernisation Programme will be funded.

Vernon Coaker: The Interception Modernisation Programme is a cross Government programme, funded by the Home Office.

Members: Email

Francis Maude: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 1211-2W, on hon. Members: email, if the Commission will make the House's remote access software compatible with Pretty Good Privacy software in order to enable hon. Members to communicate with constituents securely.

Nick Harvey: PICT's encryption services do not cover Members' emails once they have left the parliamentary network. Members' ability to install their own email encryption software was covered in the answer referred to above.

Members: Email

Francis Maude: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 1211-2W, on hon. Members: email, for what technical reasons the remote access software is incompatible with the Pretty Good Privacy cryptography application.

Nick Harvey: PICT was advised by Pretty Good Privacy Corporation that their product was not compatible with the versions of VPN software in use by Parliament.

Members: Email

Francis Maude: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 1211-2W, on hon. Members: email, what the encryption software identified during the PICT assessment that may be installed on PICT-owned personal computers at no cost to hon. Members is; and what the technical encryption standard of such software is.

Nick Harvey: Following industry practice and as a policy PICT does not disclose information about the security products in use within Parliament.

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Nick Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what estimate he has made of the costs to his Department incurred as a result of the Public Bill Committee on the Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and Learning Bill sitting beyond 6.30 pm on 26 March 2009.

Si�n Simon: The total estimated cost to the Department was 203.15 which was required to cover additional travel expenses.

Higher Education: Birmingham

Roger Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many and what proportion of  (a) males and  (b) females of between 18 and 21 years were in (i) education, (ii) employment and (iii) training in the Birmingham area in each of the last three years.

Si�n Simon: The following table shows the number of people in Birmingham in education, employment and training from 2005 to 2007 for 16 to 24-year(1)-olds. These estimates are taken from the Annual Population Survey, for which 2008 data is not yet available. We are unable to break down these estimates into a smaller age band, or by gender as the sample sizes for such are too small to give reliable estimates.
	(1) Age used is academic age, the respondents age at the preceding 31 August.
	
		
			  16 to 24-year-olds in education, employment and training in Birmingham 
			   Number  Percentage 
			   2005  2006  2007  2005  2006  2007 
			 In employment 66,000 70,000 66,000 47 46 44 
			 In education(1) 60,000 72,000 66,000 43 47 44 
			 In training 12,000 14,000 17,000 9 9 11 
			 Not in employment, education or training 30,000 30,000 30,000 22 19 20 
			 Total 16 to 24-year-olds 139,000 153,000 150,000
			 (1) Education is defined as being enrolled on an education course and either attending or waiting for term to (re)start. Training is all other learning that is not classified as education. 
		
	
	There is an overlap between these groups, as some people will for example be in employment and training. The following table gives further categories which have no overlap.
	
		
			  16 to 24-year-olds in education, employment and training (no overlaps) 
			   Number  Percentage 
			   2005  2006  2007  2005  2006  2007 
			 In employment 66,000 70,000 66,000 47 46 44 
			 Not in employment, but in education 40,000 51,000 49,000 29 33 32 
			 Not in employment or education, but in training 3,000 3,000 5,000 2 2 3 
			 Not in employment, education or training 30,000 30,000 30,000 22 19 20 
			 Total(1) 16 to 24-year-olds 139,000 153,000 150,000 100 100 100 
			 (1) Please note numbers may not sum to totals exactly due to rounding.

Learning and Skills Council

Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills who attended the Learning and Skills Council's management board meetings of  (a) 13 May 2008 and  (b) 12 June 2008; and if he will make a statement.

Si�n Simon: The LSC Management Board is part of the LSC's own internal management structure. I have therefore asked Geoff Russell, the acting chief executive of the LSC, to write to the hon. Member with the information he has requested and a copy placed in the House Libraries.

Learning and Skills Council

Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what financial provision the Learning and Skills Council will make for Mark Haysom upon his leaving the post of chief executive of the council; and if he will make a statement.

Si�n Simon: On 23 March 2009, the date that Mr. Haysom tendered his resignation, a statement was available on the DIUS website on this and also announced the appointment of Geoffrey Russell as acting chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council.
	The terms of Mr. Haysom's resignation are a matter for the Learning and Skills Council, and I have asked Geoff Russell to write to the hon. Member with the appropriate information.

Antisocial Behaviour: Fixed Penalties

Ben Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in the Lancashire police authority area have been issued with penalty notices for disorder in each of the last three years, broken down by type of offence; and how many fines associated with notices remain unpaid.

Jack Straw: The number of Penalty Notices for Disorder (PNDs) issued to persons aged 16 and over in the Lancashire police force area, by type of offence and those which were not paid from 2004 to 2007 (latest available) can be found in tables 1 to 3.
	Under the PND scheme, recipients have 21 days in which to pay the penalty or request a court hearing. 21 days is the minimum period before forces can register a fine for not responding to a notice. If no action is taken, a fine of one and half times the penalty amount is registered by the courts. Fines for non-payment of PNDs are treated by the courts in the same way as any other unpaid fine. It is not possible to separately identify the payment rate of fines arising from unpaid PNDs, but the latest enforcement rate for all fines, including those from unpaid PNDs, is 85.2 per cent. for the period April-December 2008.
	PNDs were implemented in all 43 forces in England and Wales in 2004.
	PND data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
	
		
			  Table 1:  N umber of Penalty Notices for Disorder issued to persons aged 16 and over in the Lancashire police force area, by offence, 2005 - 07( 1) 
			   80 ticket offences 
			DA01  DA02  DA3  DA4  DA5  DA6  DA11  DA12 
			   Total 80 tickets issued  Wasting police time  Misuse of public telecoms system  Giving false alarm to fire and rescue authority  Causing harassment, alarm or distress  Throwing fireworks  Drunk and disorderly  Criminal damage (under 500  Theft (retail under 200) 
			 2005 10,013 202 21 14 2,491 25 4,651 190 20 
			 2006 12,192 255 55 12 3,038 24 4,889 1,394 2,259 
			 2007 12,696 288 84 13 2,175 25 5,864 1,340 2,642 
		
	
	
		
			   DA13  DA14  DA15  DA16  DA17  DA18  DA19  DA20  DA21 
			   Breach of fireworks curfew  Possession of category 4 fireworks  Possession by a person under 18 of adult firework  Sale of alcohol to drunken person  Supply of alcohol to person under 18  Sale of alcohol to person under 18  Purchase alcohol for person under 18  Purchase alcohol for person under 18 for consumption on premises  Delivery of alcohol to person under 18 or allowing such delivery 
			 2005 4 15 822 1,546 2 1 5 4  
			 2006 7  2 4  206 24 3 20 
			 2007 1 2 6 6 1 190 28 2 29 
			 (1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.  Source:  Office for Criminal Justice ReformEvidence and Analysis unit. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2:  N umber of Penalty Notices for Disorder issued to persons aged 16 and over in the Lancashire police force area, by offence, 2005 to 2007( 1) 
			50 ticket offences 
			DB13  DAB04  DB5  DB7  DB8  DB12  DB13  DB14 
			   Total 50 tickets issued  Trespass on a railway  Throwing stones at a train/railway  Drunk in a highway  Consumption of alcohol in public place  Depositing and leaving litter  Consumption of alcohol by under 18 on relevant premises  Allowing consumption of alcohol on relevant premises  Buying or attempting to buy alcohol by person under 18 
			 2005 209 11  105 21 61 5 3 3 
			 2006 287 7  106 86 72 7  9 
			 2007 160 4 2 34 81 33 3 1 2 
			 (1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.  Source  Office for Criminal Justice ReformEvidence and Analysis unit. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 3:  N umber of Penalty Notices for Disorder issued to persons aged 16 and over in the Lancashire police force area, by outcome, 2005 to 2007( 1) 
			   Of those paid 
			   Number issued  Total pain in full  Percentage  Paid in full within 21 days  Percentage  Pain in full outside 21 days  Percentage 
			 2005 10,222 4,733 46 3,621 35 1,112 11 
			 2006 12,479 5,631 45 4,296 34 1,335 11 
			 2007 12,856 5,819 45 4,342 34 1,477 11 
		
	
	
		
			   Other outcomes 
			   Fine registered  Percentage  Court hearing requested  Percentage  PND cancelled  Percentage  Potential prosecution  Percentage  Outcome unknown  Percentage 
			 2005 4,972 49 382 4 117 1 (2) (2) 18 0 
			 2006 6,491 52 218 2 136 1 (2) (2) 3 0 
			 2007 6,645 52 240 2 152 1 (2) (2) (2) (2) 
			 (1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (2 )Nil.  Source:  Office for Criminal Justice ReformEvidence and Analysis unit.

Bail Accommodation and Support Service

Shailesh Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 30 March 2009,  Official Report, column 982W, on bail accommodation and support services, 
	(1)  how many of the 836 service users who had their residency terminated went to court; what the outcome of the hearing was in each case where legal proceedings have been concluded; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  how many service users were placed in ClearSprings' properties between the introduction of the scheme and 24 March 2009; and if he will make a statement.

David Hanson: The number reported in my answer of 30 March was 832, not 836. Of the 832, 514 were defendants on bail and 318 were offenders on Home Detention Curfew.
	Breaches leading to termination may occur as a result of failure to comply with the curfew conditions, failure to comply with other bail conditions, failure to comply with the rules applied by ClearSprings for living in houses, failure to attend contact sessions, misbehaviour, or offending and arrest by the police.
	Those who breach bail conditions are returned to court by the police but it is then for the court to decide whether the individual must be remanded in custody or can be re-bailed to a non-ClearSprings address, perhaps with other conditions. It is only possible to establish the outcomes from court records and this could be done for the 514 defendants only at disproportionate cost.
	Those who breach on Home Detention Curfew are reported to NOMS Public Protection Unit who decide whether the individual must be recalled to prison.
	From 18 June 2007 up to 24 March 2009, 1,506 defendants and 1,180 offenders were received into ClearSprings' properties.

Constituencies

Francis Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 23 February 2009,  Official Report, columns 341-2W, on constituencies, if he will make it his policy for the independent review of legislation in relation to parliamentary boundary reviews to commence in the 2005 Parliament.

Michael Wills: It remains our intention that the current legislation in relation to the conduct of parliamentary boundary reviews will be the subject of an independent review. The arrangements for the conduct and timing of the review are still under consideration.

Debt Collection

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to Lord Lucas of 29 January 2009,  Official Report,  House of Lords, column WA69, on bailiffs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the instructions provided to in-house civilian enforcement and private bailiff companies.

Bridget Prentice: The instructions referred to in the answer provided are contained in the document entitled Her Majesty's Court Service (Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004) Guidance to Civilian Enforcement Officers and Approved Enforcement Agents. A redacted copy of this guidance was placed in the Library of the House in January 2009.

Debt Collection

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to Lord Lucas of 9 March 2009,  Official Report,  House of Lords, column WA194, on bailiffs, on how many of the 386 occasions forced entry powers were used by bailiffs in each local authority area; and what type of fine or penalty was being collected in each case.

Bridget Prentice: Her Majesty's Courts Service does not hold the information requested centrally and it would require extensive manual intervention to retrieve from individual court records. It would take disproportionate time and cost to gather this information.

Debt Collection

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1155W, on debt collection, what sections were redacted on health and safety grounds from his Department's guidance on the use of bailiffs' powers of forced entry under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004.

Bridget Prentice: The redacted sections refer to the process of executing warrants and forcing entry. The Government consider that releasing the redacted parts of the guidance to civilian enforcement officers would not be in the public interest and may compromise the health and safety of HMCS staff, to whom it owes a duty of care. A copy of the redacted guidance was laid in the Library of the House in January 2009.

Debt Collection

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1155W, on debt collection, what guidance HM Courts Service has issued on the use of bailiffs' powers of peaceful entry.

Bridget Prentice: Only one set of guidance has been published by my Department, and its predecessor, on the use of civilian enforcement officers' and approved enforcement agents' powers of entry under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004, a redacted copy of which was laid in the Library of the House in January 2009.

Debt Collection

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 17 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 46-47WS, on bailiff and enforcement law, if he will bring forward proposals to repeal the primary legislation which allows for the extension of bailiffs' powers of entry and the use of force by enforcement agents.

Bridget Prentice: There are no proposals to repeal the primary legislation that allows for the extension of bailiffs' powers of entry and the use of force by enforcement agents.

Firearms: Sentencing

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people aged  (a) 21 years or more and  (b) under 21 years have been convicted of possession of a firearm in each of the last five years; and what types of sentences have been imposed in such cases.

Jack Straw: Information on the number of persons aged 21 and over, and 10 to 20 years who have been found guilty, and the sentence breakdown for possession of a gun in England and Wales, 2003 to 2007 is contained in the following tables.
	These data are on the principal offence basis. The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
	Court proceedings data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
	
		
			  Table 1:  N umber of persons found guilty at all courts for offences relating to possession of a gun in England and Wales, by age group, 2003 to 2007( 1,)( )( 2,)( )( 3,)( )( 4,)( )( 5) 
			   Age group 
			   10 to 20  21 and over 
			 2003 391 787 
			 2004 505 1,088 
			 2005 628 1,407 
			 2006 594 1,357 
			 2007 695 1,427 
			 (1) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) Includes the following statutes and offence descriptions: Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 16 (Group I) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(2). Possession of firearm with intent to endanger life. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 16 (Group II) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(2). Possession of firearm with intent to endanger life. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 16 (Group III) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(2). Possession of firearm with intent to endanger life. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 17(2) (Group I) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(3). Possessing firearms or imitation fire arm at time of committing or being arrested for an offence specified in schedule 1 of the Act. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 17(2) (Group II) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(3). 
			 Possessing firearm or imitation firearm at time of committing or being arrested for an offence specified in schedule 1 of the Act. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 17(2) (Group III) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(3). Possessing firearm or imitation firearm at time of committing or being arrested for an offence specified in schedule 1 of the Act. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 18(1) (Group I) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(3). Possessing firearm or imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence or resist arrest. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 18(1) (Group II) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(3). Possessing firearm or imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence or resist arrest. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 18(1) (Group III) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1972 S28(3). Possessing firearm or imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence or resist arrest. Firearms Act 1968 Sec 16A (as amended by Firearms (Amendment) Act 1994) Group I. Possession of a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. Firearms Act 1968 Sec 16A (as amended by Firearms (Amendment) Act 1994) (Group II). Possession of a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. Firearms Act 1968 Sec 16A (as amended by Firearms (Amendment) Act 1994) (Group III). Possession of a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. Firearms Act 1968 (Group I) Sec 1(1),as amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Sec.157, Sch.8 part III. Possessing etc firearm or ammunition without firearm certificate. Firearms Act 1968, Sec 2(1) (Group II) as amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Sec.157 Sch.8 part III. Possessing etc shot gun without certificate. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 5(1) (Group I) as amended by Criminal Justice Act 2003 S.288. Possessing or distributing prohibited weapons or ammunition. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 19 (Group I) as amended by the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 S.37 (l)(a and c) and (2) Carrying loaded firearm in public place etc. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 19 (Group II) as amended by the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 S.37 (l) (a and c) and (2) Carrying loaded firearm in public place etc. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 21(4) (Group I) as amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Sec.157 Sch.8 part III. Possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of crime. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 21(4) (Group II) as amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Sec.157 Sch.8 part III. Possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of crime. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 21(4) (Group III) as amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Sec.157 Sch.8 part III. Possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of crime. Firearms Act 1968 Sec 5(1A)(a) (Group I) as amended by Criminal Justice Act 2003 Sec.288. Possessing or distributing firearm disguised as other object. Firearms Act 1968 Sec 5(1A) (b),(c),(d)(e),(f) or (g) as amended by Criminal Justice Act 2003 Sec.288. Possessing or distributing other prohibited weapons. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 19 (Group III). Carrying loaded firearm in public place etc. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 20(1) (Group III). Trespassing with firearm in a building. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 20(2) (Group I). Trespassing with firearm on land. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 20(2) (Group II). Trespassing with firearm on land. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 20(2) (Group III). Trespassing with firearm on land. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 22(1) (Group I). Person under 17 purchasing or hiring firearm or ammunition. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 22(1) (Group II). Person under 17 purchasing or hiring firearm or ammunition. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 22(1) (Group III). Person under 17 purchasing or hiring firearm or ammunition. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 22(2) (Group I). Person under 14 having firearm or ammunition in his possession. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 22(3) (Group II). Person under 15 having with him a shot gun without adult supervision. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 22(4) (Group III). 
			 Person under 14 having with him an air weapon or ammunition. Firearms Act, 1968 Sec 22(5) (Group III). Person under 17 having with him an air weapon in a public place. (4) Some offences will cover those where a firearm or an imitation firearm were possessed. It is not possible to separately identify those that were a firearm from those that were imitation firearms as they are grouped together. (5) The sentenced column may exceed those found guilty, as it may be the case that a defendant found guilty and committed for sentence at the crown court may be sentenced in the following year.  Source: Evidence and Analysis UnitOffice for Criminal Justice Reform, Ministry of Justice 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2:  N umber of persons sentenced at all courts for offences relating to possession of a gun in England and Wales, by age group and type of sentence, 2003 - 07 
			  Age group/result  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007 
			  Aged between 10 and 20  
			 Sentenced 393 504 617 596 697 
			 Absolute discharge 7 11 7 7 10 
			 Conditional discharge 35 49 64 58 38 
			 Fine 26 48 63 47 41 
			 Community sentence 166 249 329 303 388 
			 Fully suspended sentence   3 17 34 
			 Immediate custody 152 139 146 157 176 
			 Otherwise dealt with 7 8 5 7 10 
			   
			  Aged 21 and over  
			 Sentenced 799 1,077 1,379 1,333 1,428 
			 Absolute discharge 4 4 16 6 6 
			 Conditional discharge 73 138 190 194 183 
			 Fine 114 163 272 192 219 
			 Community sentence 155 260 362 339 357 
			 Fully suspended sentence 35 42 77 169 202 
			 Immediate custody 402 452 437 412 438 
			 Otherwise dealt with 16 18 25 21 23 
			  Notes: 1. The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. 2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 3. The sentenced column may exceed those found guilty, as it may be the case that a defendant found guilty and committed for sentence at the crown court may be sentenced in the following year.  Source: (OMSAS)110-09

Housing: Sales

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 2 February 2009,  Official Report, columns 915-16W, on housing: sales, how many domestic property transactions there were according to Land Registry data in each local authority in England and Wales in the full calendar year of 2008.

Michael Wills: The information requested is contained in the following table.
	
		
			  Land Registry: Average price and volume of sales by  district annual 2008( 1) 
			  District name  Total sales 
			 Adur 752 
			 Allerdale 1,013 
			 Alnwick 446 
			 Amber Valley 1,532 
			 Arun 2,244 
			 Ashfield 1,448 
			 Ashford 1,449 
			 Aylesbury Vale 2,127 
			 Babergh 1,079 
			 Barking and Dagenham 1,705 
			 Barnet 3,445 
			 Barnsley 3,143 
			 Barrow-in-Furness 938 
			 Basildon 1,775 
			 Basingstoke and Deane 2,445 
			 Bassetlaw 1,335 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 1,887 
			 Bedford 1,825 
			 Berwick-upon-Tweed 367 
			 Bexley 2,485 
			 Birmingham 10,683 
			 Blaby 990 
			 Blackburn with Darwen 1,570 
			 Blackpool 1,914 
			 Blaenau Gwent 562 
			 Blyth Valley 892 
			 Bolsover 850 
			 Bolton 3,122 
			 Boston 873 
			 Bournemouth 3,091 
			 Bracknell Forest 1,634 
			 Bradford 6,169 
			 Braintree 1,703 
			 Breckland 1,530 
			 Brent 2,096 
			 Brentwood 912 
			 Bridgend 1,583 
			 Bridgnorth 522 
			 Brighton and Hove 3,434 
			 Broadland 1,445 
			 Bromley 3,764 
			 Bromsgrove 920 
			 Broxbourne 1,119 
			 Broxtowe 1,247 
			 Burnley 1,282 
			 Bury 2,039 
			 Caerphilly 1,690 
			 Calderdale 2,732 
			 Cambridge 1,382 
			 Camden 2,077 
			 Cannock Chase 957 
			 Canterbury 2,015 
			 Caradon 998 
			 Cardiff 4,127 
			 Carlisle 1,288 
			 Carmarthenshire 1,751 
			 Carrick 1,232 
			 Castle Morpeth 602 
			 Castle Point 968 
			 Ceredigion 633 
			 Charnwood 2,024 
			 Chelmsford 2,009 
			 Cheltenham 1,647 
			 Cherwell 1,593 
			 Chester 1,236 
			 Chesterfield 1,028 
			 Chester-le-Street 622 
			 Chichester 1,458 
			 Chiltern 947 
			 Chorley 1,208 
			 Christchurch 667 
			 City of Bristol 5,612 
			 City of Derby 2,974 
			 City of Kingston Upon Hull 3,310 
			 City of London 145 
			 City of Nottingham 3,109 
			 City of Peterborough 2,287 
			 City of Plymouth 3,106 
			 City of Westminster 2,776 
			 Colchester 2,562 
			 Congleton 997 
			 Conwy 1,409 
			 Copeland 848 
			 Corby 1,010 
			 Cotswold 1,025 
			 Coventry 3,495 
			 Craven 730 
			 Crawley 1,345 
			 Crewe and Nantwich 1,482 
			 Croydon 3,843 
			 Dacorum 1,646 
			 Darlington 1,488 
			 Dartford 1,369 
			 Daventry 961 
			 Denbighshire 1,046 
			 Derbyshire Dales 758 
			 Derwentside 1,300 
			 Doncaster 3,312 
			 Dover 1,228 
			 Dudley 3,051 
			 Durham 1,090 
			 Ealing 2,748 
			 Easington 1,330 
			 Eastbourne 1,498 
			 East Cambridgeshire 1,130 
			 East Devon 1,879 
			 East Dorset 993 
			 East Hampshire 1,366 
			 East Hertfordshire 1,656 
			 Eastleigh 1,670 
			 East Lindsey 1,741 
			 East Northamptonshire 1,193 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire 4,265 
			 East Staffordshire 1,338 
			 Eden 567 
			 Ellesmere Port and Neston 768 
			 Elmbridge 1,801 
			 Enfield 3,102 
			 Epping Forest 1,410 
			 Epsom and Ewell 872 
			 Erewash 1,428 
			 Exeter 1,377 
			 Fareham 1,418 
			 Fenland 1,307 
			 Flintshire 1,298 
			 Forest Heath 881 
			 Forest of Dean 881 
			 Fylde 1,080 
			 Gateshead 2,095 
			 Gedling 1,360 
			 Gloucester 1,581 
			 Gosport 1,082 
			 Gravesham 1,141 
			 Great Yarmouth 1,130 
			 Greenwich 2,388 
			 Guildford 1,640 
			 Gwynedd 1,162 
			 Hackney 1,713 
			 Halton 1,290 
			 Hambleton 959 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,692 
			 Harborough 1,084 
			 Haringey 2,012 
			 Harlow 924 
			 Harrogate 1,838 
			 Harrow 2,157 
			 Hart 1,209 
			 Hartlepool 1,116 
			 Hastings 1,362 
			 Havant 1,286 
			 Havering 2,615 
			 Herefordshire 1,851 
			 Hertsmere 1,101 
			 High Peak 931 
			 Hillingdon 3,023 
			 Hinckley and Bosworth 1,278 
			 Horsham 1,650 
			 Hounslow 2,286 
			 Huntingdonshire 2,110 
			 Hyndburn 1,077 
			 Ipswich 1,671 
			 Isle of Anglesey 687 
			 Isle of Wight 2,146 
			 Islington 2,262 
			 Kennet 971 
			 Kensington and Chelsea 1,765 
			 Kerrier 1,134 
			 Kettering 1,327 
			 King's Lynn and West Norfolk 1,861 
			 Kingston upon Thames 1,688 
			 Kirklees 4,897 
			 Knowsley 1,199 
			 Lambeth 2,985 
			 Lancaster 1,745 
			 Leeds 8,596 
			 Leicester 2,788 
			 Lewes 1,276 
			 Lewisham 2,596 
			 Lichfield 1,084 
			 Lincoln 1,401 
			 Liverpool 5,306 
			 Luton 2,066 
			 Macclesfield 1,772 
			 Maidstone 2,008 
			 Maldon 711 
			 Malvern Hills 748 
			 Manchester 5,895 
			 Mansfield 1,348 
			 Medway 3,245 
			 Melton 605 
			 Mendip 1,322 
			 Merthyr Tydfil 569 
			 Merton 2,213 
			 Mid Bedfordshire 1,614 
			 Mid Devon 979 
			 Middlesbrough 1,646 
			 Mid Suffolk 1,231 
			 Mid Sussex 1,689 
			 Milton Keynes 3,924 
			 Mole Valley 966 
			 Monmouthshire 820 
			 Neath Port Talbot 1,324 
			 Newark and Sherwood 1,457 
			 Newcastle-under-Lyme 1,221 
			 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,948 
			 New Forest 2,270 
			 Newham 2,661 
			 Newport 1,475 
			 Northampton 3,004 
			 North Cornwall 1,171 
			 North Devon 1,108 
			 North Dorset 779 
			 North East Derbyshire 909 
			 North East Lincolnshire 2,222 
			 North Hertfordshire 1,500 
			 North Kesteven 1,534 
			 North Lincolnshire 1,851 
			 North Norfolk 1,470 
			 North Shropshire 611 
			 North Somerset 2,613 
			 North Tyneside 2,467 
			 North Warwickshire 628 
			 North West Leicestershire 1,080 
			 North Wiltshire 1,650 
			 Norwich 1,698 
			 Nuneaton and Bedworth 1,322 
			 Oadby and Wigston 521 
			 Oldham 2,513 
			 Oswestry 409 
			 Oxford 1,431 
			 Pembrokeshire 1,323 
			 Pendle 1,211 
			 Penwith 775 
			 Poole 2,085 
			 Portsmouth 2,578 
			 Powys 1,219 
			 Preston 1,565 
			 Purbeck 548 
			 Reading 2,083 
			 Redbridge 2,991 
			 Redcar and Cleveland 1,540 
			 Redditch 864 
			 Reigate and Banstead 1,989 
			 Restormel 1,292 
			 Rhondda Cynon Taff 2,527 
			 Ribble Valley 626 
			 Richmondshire 512 
			 Richmond upon Thames 2,406 
			 Rochdale 2,081 
			 Rochford 977 
			 Rossendale 853 
			 Rother 1,324 
			 Rotherham 2,572 
			 Rugby 1,320 
			 Runnymede 1,035 
			 Rushcliffe 1,287 
			 Rushmoor 1,327 
			 Rutland 447 
			 Ryedale 575 
			 Salford 3,018 
			 Salisbury 1,379 
			 Sandwell 3,086 
			 Scarborough 1,676 
			 Sedgefield 1,050 
			 Sedgemoor 1,480 
			 Sefton 2,467 
			 Selby 1,017 
			 Sevenoaks 1,197 
			 Sheffield 6,345 
			 Shepway 1,450 
			 Shrewsbury and Atcham 921 
			 Slough 1,492 
			 Solihull 2,376 
			 Southampton 2,947 
			 South Bedfordshire 1,384 
			 South Bucks 823 
			 South Cambridgeshire 1,731 
			 South Derbyshire 1,288 
			 Southend-on-Sea 2,432 
			 South Gloucestershire 2,909 
			 South Hams 1,122 
			 South Holland 1,134 
			 South Kesteven 1,827 
			 South Lakeland 1,420 
			 South Norfolk 1,736 
			 South Northamptonshire 1,032 
			 South Oxfordshire 1,477 
			 South Ribble 1,267 
			 South Shropshire 473 
			 South Somerset 1,963 
			 South Staffordshire 908 
			 South Tyneside 1,538 
			 Southwark 2,457 
			 Spelthorne 1,124 
			 Stafford 1,363 
			 Staffordshire Moorlands 948 
			 St. Albans 1,716 
			 St. Edmundsbury 1,328 
			 Stevenage 898 
			 St. Helens 1,638 
			 Stockport 3,147 
			 Stockton-on-Tees 2,461 
			 Stoke-on-Trent 3,056 
			 Stratford-on-Avon 1,337 
			 Stroud 1,480 
			 Suffolk Coastal 1,659 
			 Sunderland 2,756 
			 Surrey Heath 1,165 
			 Sutton 2,361 
			 Swale 1,707 
			 Swansea 2,798 
			 Swindon 3,138 
			 Tameside 2,670 
			 Tamworth 834 
			 Tandridge 1,089 
			 Taunton Deane 1,256 
			 Teesdale 260 
			 Teignbridge 1,501 
			 Tendring 1,923 
			 Test Valley 1,203 
			 Tewkesbury 1,014 
			 Thanet 1,971 
			 The Vale of Glamorgan 1,309 
			 Three Rivers 1,039 
			 Thurrock 1,682 
			 Tonbridge and Malling 1,417 
			 Torbay 1,878 
			 Torfaen 841 
			 Torridge 910 
			 Tower Hamlets 2,466 
			 Trafford 2,230 
			 Tunbridge Wells 1,539 
			 Tynedale 659 
			 Uttlesford 1,082 
			 Vale of White Horse 1,201 
			 Vale Royal 1,360 
			 Wakefield 3,525 
			 Walsall 2,647 
			 Waltham Forest 2,407 
			 Wandsworth 3,961 
			 Wansbeck 780 
			 Warrington 2,436 
			 Warwick 1,779 
			 Watford 1,199 
			 Waveney 1,436 
			 Waverley 1,437 
			 Wealden 1,703 
			 Wear Valley 969 
			 Wellingborough 952 
			 Welwyn Hatfield 1,073 
			 West Berkshire 1,916 
			 West Devon 817 
			 West Dorset 1,404 
			 West Lancashire 934 
			 West Lindsey 1,296 
			 West Oxfordshire 1,397 
			 West Somerset 444 
			 West Wiltshire 1,785 
			 Weymouth and Portland 831 
			 Wigan 3,817 
			 Winchester 1,402 
			 Windsor and Maidenhead 1,625 
			 Wirral 3,387 
			 Woking 1,354 
			 Wokingham 2,040 
			 Wolverhampton 2,129 
			 Worcester 1,310 
			 Worthing 1,447 
			 Wrekin 1,648 
			 Wrexham 1,173 
			 Wychavon 1,124 
			 Wycombe 1,826 
			 Wyre 1,299 
			 Wyre Forest 914 
			 York 2,280 
			 Total sales 645,405 
			 (1) Information relates to single residential properties sold for their full market value.

Housing: Sales

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many properties registered with the Land Registry changed ownership in each of the last three months.

Michael Wills: Land Registry is able to provide information on the total number of registered properties sold in the last three months for which data is available. As these figures are extracted using price paid data, no information is available for any properties which have not been sold. The only way to identify other changes of ownership would be to extract data regarding every application over the time period asked for. This could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	
		
			   Total sales( 1) 
			  2009  
			 January 25,762 
			 February 24,556 
			 March 13,131 
			 (1 )As at 31 March 2009.

Politics and Government

Francis Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which proposals contained in The Governance of Britain, Cm 7170, have yet to be  (a) commenced and  (b) fully implemented.

Michael Wills: The 'Governance of Britain' Green Paper, published in July 2007 set out a route map for further constitutional reform, to better strengthen the relationship between government, Parliament and the citizen, and to take steps towards a new constitutional settlement that built on the reforms that had been carried out since 1997.
	In July 2008 my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor (Mr. Straw), made a written ministerial statement that set out the progress that had been made in meeting the objectives of the Governance of Britain programme in the 12 months since publication. The accompanying report, 'Governance of Britain: One year on', set out progress on the key commitments in the Green Paper and was published on the Ministry of Justice website:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/governance-britain-one-year-on.htm
	An update to the 'Governance of Britain: One year on' report has been placed in the Libraries of the House.

Young Offenders: Reoffenders

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 26 February 2009,  Official Report, column 998W, on young offenders: reoffenders, what the final figures are for the number of  (a) persistent young offenders and  (b) offences committed by persistent young offenders in each police force area in 2008.

David Hanson: Overall statistics on persistent young offenders (PYOs) for England and Wales and each police force area are available from 1997 to 2008.
	These figures are designed to measure the speed and efficiency of the youth justice system, through monitoring the pledge to halve the average time from arrest to sentence for dealing with PYOs in England and Wales from 142 days in 1996 to 71 days. They are not designed to measure overall trends in youth crime, and will give a misleading picture of the true trend if used for this purpose.
	The table shows the number of PYOs, and the number of offences committed by them after designation, for each police force area in 2008. These figures are now finalised and replace the provisional ones provided before.
	On 10 December 2008, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor (Mr. Straw) announced in a written ministerial statement that 2008 is the last year for which PYO statistics will be published and compiled, instead, from this year, Local Criminal Justice Boards are being asked to focus on a single priority group of young offenders deemed to pose the highest risk of re-offending and causing serious harm to others, the Deter group.
	
		
			  Number of persistent young offenders (PYOs) and offences committed by PYOs, by police force area, 2008 
			  Police force area  Number of persistent young offenders  Number of offences committed by persistent young offenders 
			 Avon and Somerset 394 762 
			 Bedfordshire 110 197 
			 Cambridgeshire 191 322 
			 Cheshire 242 436 
			 Cleveland 304 673 
			 Cumbria 240 457 
			 Derbyshire 296 498 
			 Devon and Cornwall 335 590 
			 Dorset 143 243 
			 Durham 259 451 
			 Dyfed-Powys 134 237 
			 Essex 397 764 
			 Gloucestershire 164 295 
			 Greater Manchester 1,158 2,202 
			 Gwent 173 325 
			 Hampshire 676 1,245 
			 Hertfordshire 188 357 
			 Humberside 365 669 
			 Kent 354 625 
			 Lancashire 617 1,257 
			 Leicestershire 232 445 
			 Lincolnshire 106 175 
			 Merseyside 471 868 
			 Metropolitan 1,849 3,144 
			 Norfolk 157 291 
			 North Wales 203 377 
			 North Yorkshire 250 492 
			 Northamptonshire 160 291 
			 Northumbria 826 1,672 
			 Nottinghamshire 331 558 
			 South Wales 355 626 
			 South Yorkshire 388 688 
			 Staffordshire 268 479 
			 Suffolk 208 410 
			 Surrey 120 225 
			 Sussex 362 674 
			 Thames Valley 428 729 
			 Warwickshire 117 212 
			 West Mercia 312 571 
			 West Midlands 715 1138 
			 West Yorkshire 875 1581 
			 Wiltshire 111 190 
			
			 England and Wales 15,819 28,834

Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry: Legal Costs

Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 30 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 851-52W, on the Bloody Sunday Tribunal Inquiry, for what reasons the legal costs for February 2009 differ in comparison with the other months listed.

Shaun Woodward: I am advised that the legal costs for the Bloody Sunday Inquiry in the month of February 2009 were higher than in previous months due to the payment of various outstanding legal fees.

Ministers' Interests

Francis Maude: To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 12 March 2009,  Official Report, column 28WS, on list of Ministers' interests, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Cabinet Secretary's guidance on blind trusts.

Norman Baker: To ask the Prime Minister 
	(1)  if he will direct all Ministers who hold assets in blind trusts to name  (a) the executors of those trusts and  (b) the monetary value of the assets transferred to the trust at the time of their appointment;
	(2)  if he will make it his policy that blind trusts operated on behalf of Ministers shall be managed by the Public Trustee.

Gordon Brown: The Ministerial Code sets out the processes for handling Ministers' financial interests.

Departmental ICT

Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the  (a) energy consumed by,  (b) energy cost of and  (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Ann McKechin: The Scotland Office has not made separate estimates of the  (a) energy consumed by,  (b) energy cost of and  (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each division of his Department in each of the last five years. The Scotland Office shares an information and communications technology system (SCOTS) with the Scottish Government which is responsible for the development, administration, and maintenance of the system including the provision of hardware. The Scottish Government are complying with the same standards as those set out in the Greening Government ICT Strategy.

Departmental ICT

Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Ann McKechin: The Scotland Office shares an information and communications technology system (SCOTS) with the Scottish Executive which is responsible for the development, administration, and maintenance of the system including the provision of hardware. As part of the SCOTS Technology Refresh Project the MS Exchange/Outlook mailbox servers are being consolidated into a new central Data Centre at the end of April 2009. For 2008 the overall average server capacity utilisation was 77 per cent..

Departmental ICT

Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

Ann McKechin: The Scotland Office shares an information and communications technology system (SCOTS) with the Scottish Executive which is responsible for the development, administration, and maintenance of the system including the provision of hardware. The Scottish Executive is complying with the same standards as those set out in the Greening Government ICT Strategy.
	All Office Machinery items that are suppliedPC, Monitor, Laptop, Laser Printers and MFD's all meet the best practice Government's Buy Sustainable-Quick Win standard.

Corruption

Jonathan Djanogly: To ask the Solicitor-General which authorities have powers to bring prosecutions for offences related to bribery.

Vera Baird: There is a common law offence of bribery which can be prosecuted by any of the relevant prosecuting authorities. In practice, prosecutions for bribery in England and Wales are brought by one or other of these prosecuting authorities, under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 or the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 with the consent of the Attorney-General.
	The Crown Prosecution Service is responsible for prosecuting offences investigated by the police in England and Wales. The Serious Fraud Office is responsible for investigating and prosecuting cases relating to serious or complex fraud in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which includes offences of domestic and overseas bribery.
	However, under the law of England and Wales there remains a general power to bring a private prosecution for any offence, subject to any specific statutory provision to the contrary. This means that it would in theory be possible for another authority to bring a prosecution for bribery, if the offence related to the authority's discharge of its public functions and the necessary consent of the Attorney-General had been obtained.

Heathrow Airport

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent reports he has received on the effectiveness of the operation of Heathrow Terminal 5; what recent discussions he has had with British Airways on the issue; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Fitzpatrick: My right hon. Friend has not had any recent discussions with British Airways on this issue.
	BAA provides information on performance at Heathrow against service quality targets set by the Civil Aviation Authority. The most recent report for Terminal 5 stated that in March 2009 BAA met or exceeded the majority of their targets, reducing the length of waiting at security search such that queue times were less than five minutes for over 96 per cent. of the time.

Motor Vehicles: Registration

Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the number of vehicles from EU accession states on the road in the UK which have no tax or motor insurance; what steps he is taking to ensure that such vehicles are on the road legally; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Fitzpatrick: Foreign registered vehicles temporarily brought into the UK by overseas residents are usually exempt from UK registration and licensing under the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Order 1975. The exemptions state that a vehicle which is properly registered and taxed in its home country may be used by a visitor for up to six months in any 12 without being subject to domestic registration and licensing. Data relating to the total number of vehicles entering the UK from EU accession states is not collected.

Civil Servants: Pensions

Francis Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 3 March 2009,  Official Report, columns 1447-8W, on civil servants: pensions, how many individuals have pension funds invested in  (a) Standard Life and  (b) Scottish Widows with-profit funds according to records held by the Financial Services Authority.

Ian Pearson: The matter raised in this question is the responsibility of the Financial Services Authority, whose day-to-day operations are independent from Government control and influence. I have asked the FSA to write to the hon. Member.

Departmental Sick Leave

Vincent Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff days were lost as a result of sick leave from his Department in each of the last five financial years; and if he will make a statement.

Ian Pearson: Sickness absence data for all central Government Departments since 2003 to 2007 have been published annually by the Cabinet Office at:
	http://beta.civilservice.gov.uk/about/who/statistics/sickness.aspx
	This represents a four year period with the fourth year being for the financial year 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007.
	From 1 April 2007 arrangements changed and it became the responsibility of Departments to produce sickness data and the Cabinet Office has published a combined departmental quarterly report. This is available on:
	http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/reports/absence.aspx
	In respect of the fifth financial year in question 2007-08, 5,507 sickness days in respect of HMT were included within the cabinet office figures for the four quarters within the financial year representing an average of 4.7 days sickness absence for each employee.

Economic and Monetary Union

Francis Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1183W, on economic and monetary union, who the designated Euro-Minister is in each Department; and on what date each acquired the Euro brief.

Ian Pearson: The designated Euro Minister for each Department and the year they were appointed is stated in the following table:
	
		
			  Department  Minister 
			 HM Treasury Ian Pearson (2008) 
			 Ministry of Defence (MOD) Bob Ainsworth (2007) 
			 Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulation Reform (BERR) Gareth Thomas (2008) 
			 Northern Ireland Office Paul Goggins (2007) 
			 National Assembly for Wales Rhodri Morgan (2001) 
			 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Jane Kennedy(2008) 
			 Department for Work and Pension (DWP) Jonathan Shaw (2008) 
			 Department for Children Schools and Families Sarah McCarthy-Fry (2008) 
			 Department of Health (DOH) Dawn Primarolo (2007) 
			 Scotland Office Ann McKechin (2008) 
			 Cabinet Office Tom Watson (2008) 
			 Department for Transport (DFT) Geoff Hoon (2008) 
			 Home Office Phil Woolas (2008) 
			 Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) John Healey (2008) 
			 Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Caroline Flint (2008) 
			 Ministry of Justice Lord Bach (2008) 
			 Wales Office Wayne David (2008)

Government Departments: Consultants

Francis Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the Office of Government Commerce has recorded as being spent on consultants by central government in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Ian Pearson: Consultancy spend by the 16 largest spending central Government Departments for 2007-08, the most recent year available, has been published by the Office of Government Commerce. Details can be found using the following link:
	http://www.ogc.gov.uk/professional_services_consultancy_value_programme.asp

Members: Correspondence

Michael Spicer: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
	(1)  pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009,  Official Report, columns 321-2W, on Members: correspondence, when he plans to reply to the letter of 29 December 2008 from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire on licensing of banks for Financial Services Authority compensation scheme regulations (PO reference: 1/65525/2009);
	(2)  pursuant to the answer of 9 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1625W, on Members: correspondence, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 6 November 2008 on charities, (PO reference: 1/62894/2008).

Ian Pearson: Replies have been sent to the hon. Member.

Parliamentary Questions: Costs

Francis Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1187W, on parliamentary questions, what the disproportionate cost threshold has been in each year since 1997.

Ian Pearson: At 1 January 1997 the disproportionate cost threshold (DCT) stood at 450, it has since increased as follows:
	
		
			
			 21 July 1997 500 
			 15 May 2000 550 
			 11 April 2002 600 
			 15 November 2006 700 
			 3 December 2008 750

Public Bodies: Annual Reports

Francis Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy for the Cabinet Office to publish details of annual public expenditure on the part of executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies and other central government bodies.

Ian Pearson: Executive agencies, executive non-departmental public bodies, and where relevant, other central Government bodies, individually publish details of their expenditure in their annual financial accounts. The accounts of executive agencies are also consolidated into their parent Department's resource accounts, also published annually and laid in the House. Whole of Government Accounts, that will consolidate the accounts of all bodies classified to the public sector, will be produced and published for the first time for financial year 2009-10.

Public Sector: Hospitality

Francis Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1187W, on public sector: hospitality, how many bookings for stays at five star or above hotels were made through the Expotel contract by his Department in the last year for which figures are available.

Angela Eagle: total cost for HM Treasury in the period 20 April 2008 to 19 April 2009.
	
		
			   Number of trips  Number of  nights stayed  Total  cost () 
			  Customer
			 H M Treasury 3 6 500.00

Tax Avoidance

Michael Meacher: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will bring forward legislative proposals to  (a) make the design and promotion of schemes intended primarily as a vehicle for tax avoidance illegal and  (b) establish penalties for those involved in the design and promotion of such schemes.

Ian Pearson: Tax evasion is unlawful. It is unlawful for any person to assist in or induce the preparation or delivery of any information, return or accounts or other documents he knows will be, or are likely to be used for any purpose of tax and which he knows to be incorrect.

Taxation: Motor Vehicles

David Gauke: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the financial implications for car dealerships in 2009-10 of changes to the taxation treatment of demonstrator motor vehicles introduced with effect from 6 April 2009.

Angela Eagle: This change was implemented, following consultation with the motor industry, in such a way that it should not cost the industry any extra overall.